crazyco

Thanks everyone for the encouragement, its nice to be reminded that others have been through even tougher situations than mine and succeeded.

I am just wondering if anyone has tried to go thru nursing school with parents who treat you like crap and dont give any financial or emotional support. All my family wants me to do is just go get a job right now so they wont have to support me at all financially and its so unfair. I decided after high school I wanted to work b/c school wasn't really for me, now I'm 22 and realized I have to get a degree to make any decent money and I want to become a nurse b/c I want to make a difference in people's lives. I see all my friends from high school getting cars from their parents and having their school paid for and it just makes me sick. I hope that if you have/had supportive parents when you were younger that you never take it for granted. I've never once received an allowance or had my gas paid for, sorry about the rant but my life would be a thousand times easier if I got the same suppport from my family that everyone else does. But my family thinks I should just work wherever I can until I can afford to pay for college(which is never going to happen). I'm so tired of being depressed b/c I cant find a job that I look forward to everyday. If anyone else has been in this situation, how did you get thru it? especially nursing school with all the stress involved? I cant imagine how I'm going to do it. I dont even care if I dont have financial support, I know I can get by without that but all I want is for them to say they're proud of me for wanting to better myself and they support the idea of me going to college.

DMACC has a one year waiting list and a lot of prereqs whereas Mercy doesnt have any, they incoprorate them into the program. I found out that I would have to work one year FT @ Mercy for every two semesters of school I get for free but I dont know if that includes summer terms or if they consider how many credits as opposed to just the semester.

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has gone to Mercy College, I am looking at going there b/c it sounds like its really hard to get into DMACC, I dont know if Grandview is as hard. And my mom has worked at Mercy (not as a nurse) for 15 yrs and they have a tuition discount for family program, I have also heard if you sign a contract to work for Mercy for so long you can get school paid for. Does anyone know anything about this? Is it a good idea? Any recommendations on what I should do? I appreciate any help you could give.